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12:00 PM ET, November 15, 2018

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Eddie Scarry / Washington Examiner:
The judge in a preliminary hearing over Jim Acosta's White House press pass delays a ruling until Thursday, after hearing arguments from CNN and the DOJ  —  U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly said he is delaying a decision in CNN's lawsuit against the White House until Thursday while he considers the merits of both sides.
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CNN:
Responding to CNN's lawsuit, the Department of Justice says the White House can pick and choose which journalists it grants permanent press passes to
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fox, ABC, NBC, NYT, AP, Bloomberg, First Look Media, Politico, EW Scripps, USA Today, and WaPo say they are filing amicus briefs supporting CNN in WH lawsuit
Gerret Von Nordheim / European Journalism Observatory:
Study: analysis of 3M articles from 2004 to 2016 shows quotations of social media plateaued at the start of the decade but have increased in the last few years  —  It feels as if half the world usually sees Donald Trump's latest tweets - because the media quote them, comment on them and inadvertently help them to spread even further.
Jon Levine / The Wrap:
The week before the election, “caravan” was said 1,202 times on Fox and 834 times on CNN, but only 203 and 75 times on those same channels the week after  —  In the run-up to the 2018 midterm elections, news of a migrant caravan moving through Mexico toward the United States dominated the airwaves.
Kali Hays / WWD:
Sources: Seventeen magazine is cutting down its print edition from the current bimonthly schedule to special standalone issues starting next year  —  The 75-year-old title will no longer have a regular print schedule, as Hearst continues to change under its new magazines president.
Discussion: Folio
Eric Johnson / Recode:
Q&A with Daily Beast Editor-in-Chief Noah Shachtman on the site's role as a “high-end tabloid”, access journalism, and social media for reporters  —  The site's new Editor in Chief Noah Shachtman wants to take “full, big, considered swings” at the targets who deserve it.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Comcast makes Tubi, a free, ad-supported streaming video app with ~10K movies and TV shows, available to its Xfinity X1 customers, the third OTT service on X1  —  Comcast is bringing Tubi's free, ad-supported service with almost 10,000 movies and TV show titles to its Xfinity X1 customers nationwide.
Jack Nicas / New York Times:
Jack Nicas, who covers Apple and other tech companies for The New York Times, describes the new tools and old-school methods he uses to cover Silicon Valley  —  Reporting on secretive technology companies sometimes means finding people who don't want to be found.  Jack Nicas, who covers Apple, relies on some old-school methods.
Discussion: @puiwingtam
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Latino-focused digital media company Mitu rehires Roy Burstin as CEO and raises $10M led by LEAP Global Partners  —  Mitu is still alive and kicking: The Hispanic digital-media company has brought back co-founder Roy Burstin as CEO and received an infusion of $10 million in new capital.
Discussion: Tubefilter, The Wrap and Deadline
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
The Financial Times is using a bot to warn its journalists if there are too many male voices in an article, as it tries to attract more female readers  —  Paper develops bot in attempt to force writers to look include more expert women in pieces  —  The Financial Times is automatically warning …
 
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Dutch media company De Correspondent launches membership drive for its US publication, The Correspondent, and hopes to raise $2.5M by December 14
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Scott Stein / CNET:
Meta opens its VR OS, now called Horizon OS, to third parties, and says Asus and Lenovo plan Horizon OS-compatible headsets; Meta plans an Xbox branded Quest

Emilia David / The Verge:
Microsoft launches Phi-3 Mini, a 3.8B-parameter model that competes with GPT-3.5, and plans to release Phi-3 Small and Phi-3 Medium with 7B and 14B parameters

James Rundle / Wall Street Journal:
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